Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-04-08
A Fun-LOving Goat.

A few evenings since, so goes story,
the members of certain lodge Of a
society that shall be nameless concoct-
ed the novel production of real goat
in a portion of the initiatory work of
the evening, with results as follows:
The goat, gotten up the stairs and
into the ante-room of the lodge without
much trouble, and, properly secured,
was held in check until the time need
ed for his appearance in the part ne
was to take, which was near the clos
ing portion of the work. At the right
time he was led into the lodgeroom,
where, almost as soon as entering, ne
entered into the sport of the occasion
by charging head on at the presiding
officer, who, not expecting such warmth
of feeling, was unprepared for the de-
monstration, and was consequently
quickly hoored, with trousers badly
torn and himself othwise demoralized.
The animal was secured after short
tussle, the candidate put in position,
and then the goat not only charged
the unfortunate candidate, doing his
duty as was intended, but also took it
into his head to go the grand rounds,
which he did to fine advantage, scat
tering the members right and left in
his innocent fun, forcing some upon
tables and nearly all into places out OF
his reach. r.
1t was some minutes before the goat
could be secured, and many more be-
fore the lodge room could be put in
order again. The candidate, naturally
enough, got mad, the officers got more
than they bargained for, and, as it is
told, there will be no further attempt
change the ritual, for the present at
least by the enterprising members OF
this lodge.
The breaking of the Senatorial dead
locks in West Virginia and New Jar-
sey and the appointment OF General
Finley to succeed the love-lOrn Jones,
of Florida, completes the list of SenG.
tors as it will stand during at least .
portion of the fiftieth session. The
outgoing Senate stood Republicans
Al; Democrats, "a, and (RiddlebergeD
Independent, l. The incoming body
will stand Republicans, 3S; Demo-
Gratis, 81, and Independent, l. The
changes are Democratic gains in four
States-California, Indiana, New Jer-
sey and Virginia-and loss in Ne
vada, where Stewart succeeds Fair.
The course of the erratic Riddleberger
is likely to become even more interest
ing than before, in view Of the fact
that pique or resentment may at any
time prompt him to desert the Repub-
lican leaders, whom he cordially hates,
and by voting with the Democrats tic
the vote upon important measures. +
STATISTICS show that in the last ten
months we exported only l2,l2l,32l
pounds of butter, but in the cores
ponding months of last year the
quantity exported was 17,O38,620
pounds. Last month we exported
only ,44S.OO1 pounds of cheese, but
in February, 1886, We exported 1885,
3l4 pounds. More than 100000
pounds artificial butter were manu-
factured and sold in this country in
the months of November, December
and January, but only 114,6T pounds
were exported. Or, in other words,
We are consuming artificial butter at
the rate of about 100000 pounds q
year. The expectation, however, Of
"oleo oiP' has greatly increased. The
advance for January, 1887, over Janu-
ary, 1885, was more than 200 per cent.
THE law to prevent aliens from ac-
quiring title to lands in this country
was among the best passed by the lat
Congress. Had this doctrine been
Amcricanized years ago, about $4,000
square miles of Uncle Sans domain
would have been saved for his chill
dren.